Douglas Karr's Articles on Martech Zone
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Five Critical SEO Issues Discovered with Screaming Frog
Have you ever crawled your own site? It’s a great strategy to fix some rather blatant issues with your site that you may not have noticed. Good friends at Site Strategics told us about Screaming Frog’s SEO Spider. It’s a simple crawler that’s free with a limitation of 500 internal pages… enough for most websites. If you need more, purchase…
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Don’t Blame WordPress
90,000 hackers are trying to get into your WordPress installation right now. That’s a ridiculous statistic but also points to the popularity of the world’s most popular content management system. While we’re fairly agnostic about content management systems, we have a deep respect for WordPress and support most of our clients’ installations on it. I don’t necessarily agree with the…
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The Best Marketing Mobile Application! Version 3
The incredible team at Postano has done it again, surpassing all of my expectations of a great mobile application with Version 3 of Martech. I believe it’s the best Marketing iPhone App out there (Android coming)! 1.webp” alt=”mzl.rtyyutte.320×480-75″ width=”270″ height=”480″ />First up is the very slick redesign that incorporates a Facebook-like left navigation. It makes it simple to scroll and…
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CISPA Is Not Dead
Whenever you see a bill working its way through the Senate and Congress that has over half a billion dollars from corporate lobbyists behind it, you should probably take a closer look at it as a citizen. As it’s written, CISPA won’t protect us from cyber threats, but it will violate our 4th Amendment right to privacy. It lets the…
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The Dumbest Smart People on Facebook
This was one of those rants where I really wanted to take screenshots and share names… but I’m going to try to give these folks the benefit of the doubt. Hopefully they aren’t the narcissistic idiots they came off as and they were just having a bad day. The truth is that I’m growing weary of social media and I’m…
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How Consumers Use Social Media to Find Local Businesses
People use social media to find and engage with local businesses in various ways, leveraging the platforms’ features like search and discovery tools, user-generated content (UGC), and influencer recommendations. Social media platforms have become essential for regional companies to connect with their audience, increase brand awareness, and drive sales. Statistics highlight the importance of social media for local businesses: Facebook…
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Responsys Launches Interact Preference
As large marketing technology companies merge and acquire other applications into their product mix, there’s often a gap in the ability for the customer to set communication preferences. If you want email, you go to one site, if you want mobile alerts, another… if it’s SMS still another. According to Forrester, 77% of consumers want to be able to decide…
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Video: Market Like Beyonce (NSFW)
Just a heads’ up that this video does have some colorful language. If you’re at work, you may need to put on the headphones. This is a pretty straight forward message from Gary Vaynerchuk. I love the message that social media is a long-term strategy and it’s one that most companies fail to understand. I always tell folks that it’s…
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Your Social Media Marketing requires Images
The power of social media is the ability of your audience or community to echo your message to extend its reach. For marketers, the skillset they need to master is the ability to ensure they utilize messages that are remarkable. Recognizing that images significantly increase the chances of your message being shared means that your social media marketing efforts must…
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Elements of a Perfect Facebook Contest App
The first thing most business owners do when they want to increase engagement and Likes on their Facebook Pages is create a contest app. Yet so many people are confused not only by Facebook’s complicated rules, but by how to create an app that actually does what they hope it will. Creating the perfect app is both an art and…
